

Social media is designed to elicit the worst tendencies of people. Needless antagonism, faceless openents who can’t be hurt, distorted information. The end result is an unproductive space that prizes engagement and dopamine over any actual progress, either personal or communal. Honestly, getting banned from reddit was a godsend.
As an aside I’m also mostly an advocate of the strategic retreat position but I have some doubts, particularly around the normalisation or relations with Israel.


You can’t “eradicate” religion. Not only morally speaking but also practically speaking. The majority of the world is still religious and will continue to be until material conditions improve. You’re not going to get the group with the most revolutionary potential, the proletariat in the periphery, to sign on to a revolutionary program that wants to “eradicate” something they hold literally sacred.